Top 100 Quotes About Not Gossip
#1. Go to faeries for gossip about vampires, to werewolves for gossip about faeries, and do not gossip about werewolves, because they try to bite your face off: that was Magnus's motto.
Cassandra Clare
#2. Do not gossip with new coworkers, admit to any insecurities or concerns, complain to them, or solicit too much in the way of guidance (they will peg you as clueless), especially
Kate White
#3. Did God really say that I couldn't tell my friends what so and so did yesterday? Does that really count as gossip? No, it's just venting, and venting is healthy right? Wrong! We are supposed to think about the things that are praiseworthy, not gossip worthy.
Heather Hart
#4. Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers
Radhe Maa
#5. My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
Rumi
#6. Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.
David Halberstam
#8. Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).
Jack Kornfield
#9. Wildfire did not run through dry woods as fast as gossip ran through women.
Robert Jordan
#10. the women began traveling to remote villages, distributing articles that argued not just against "honor" killings but also against forced marriages and the pernicious way gossip is used in small communities to control the behavior of women and girls.
Geraldine Brooks
#11. Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.
Bianca Scardoni
#12. If prayer flew as quickly as gossip, all the saints in heaven could not keep up with it.
James R. Benn
#13. So you are the scribes that nobody and everybody is talking about," Konrad said.
"I don't know about that," Malachi said. "I'm not much for gossip."
"Oh, we eminent politicians don't call it gossip, Malachi. We call it 'intelligence.
Elizabeth Hunter
#14. The fact is that gossip, rumors, mythmaking, and news stories are not appropriate vehicles for the communication of nuances of truth, those subtle tonalities that are often the truly crucial elements in a causal chain.
Chaim Potok
#15. It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.
Criss Jami
#16. I'm so not interested in gossip. It just gives me the creeps. I love the work; I love what I do. If somebody sends me an interview that has any connotation of something that's not interesting or genuine, I'm not interested. I really detach myself from it.
Francisco Costa
#18. Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#19. PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
Wallis Simpson
#20. If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer."
Brigham Young
#21. And what's wrong with headstrong girls?" she pressed. "Other than the fact that they're not wooden-headed ninnies who can only open their mouths to give orders and gossip?
Sarah J. Maas
#22. Haven't I been worth five years' excellent gossip to you? Are you not all waiting agog to see me seize my sister-in-law by the hair? When I think of it, damn it, I'm a public benefactor.
Dorothy Dunnett
#23. It's like avoidance behavior in therapy - wanting to share the gossip but not wanting to deal with the real, more painful issues. Of course we want to avoid the pain. But by doing so, we inevitably cause more of it.
Marianne Williamson
#24. A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
George Bernard Shaw
#25. My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#26. Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.
Beth Ditto
#27. Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other.
Lysa TerKeurst
#28. Gossip is so dangerous, because it makes you feel like you told the truth. And you did. Just not to the person involved. It scratches that itch, that impulse to tell the truth, but it has no power to transform, and it destroys trust. When
Shauna Niequist
#29. What the sounds and smells do not divulge, gossip supplies. It spreads like wildfire in the neighborhood, where everyone is watching one another's morals.
Asne Seierstad
#30. Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
Phyllis McGinley
#31. You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
[Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]
Ovid
#32. President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.
Alveda King
#33. There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel.
Molly Harper
#34. He had always assumed gossip to be the malicious whispering of uncomfortable truths not the fabrication of absurdities. How was one to protect oneself against people making up things Was a life of careful impeccable behavior not enough in a world where inventions were passed around as fact
Helen Simonson
#35. You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.
Elaine Dundy
#36. With a strong sense of the imminence of death, you will feel the need to engage in spiritual practice, improving your mind and not wasting your time on various distractions ranging from eating and drinking to endless talk about war, romance, and gossip.
Dalai Lama XIV
#37. Okay, so we're in Georgia. I can do this. I'm not just the new girl. I'm a vampire. I don't have to be afraid of mean girls and gossip anymore. I could snap their necks in half - er, not that I will or anything, but it's nice to know that I can.
Tamara Summers
#38. The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.
Casey Affleck
#39. he could be suspected of knowing anything about the murder, but still he could not be comfortable in the midst of this gossip. It kept him in a cold
Mark Twain
#40. I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.
Jeff Garlin
#42. Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip
Erma Bombeck
#43. Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
#44. I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.
James Lipton
#45. I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
Beth Ditto
#46. There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.
Joseph Addison
#47. Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
Nathan Parsons
#48. It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
Jane Austen
#49. No, no, no, it cannot be," she cried; "she cannot feel. Her kindness is not sympathy; her good-nature is not tenderness. All that she wants is gossip; and she only likes me now because I supply it.
Jane Austen
#50. As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
George Eliot
#51. People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing ... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip.
Lorrie Moore
#52. News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.
Benjamin Disraeli
#53. about to make, but the idea had faded. Not for the first time that day, she wished the hall outside her door hadn't become the official gathering place for coworkers in search of gossip and idle chit chat. It wasn't like her to lose focus so easily. Karen couldn't afford to slow down,
Lynne M. Spreen
#54. We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?
Rand Paul
#55. Remember, kiddo, gossip says a lot about people. But not the people who are talked about. Only the people who do the talking."
Charleigh Rose
#56. There can be there ought to be no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#57. I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no! Genuine poetry is not the scum of the heart.
Gustave Flaubert
#58. A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art ... I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities ... tunes are merely the gossips of music ...
Edgard Varese
#59. I'll tell you a piece of news
I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell.
Anne Bronte
#60. Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
Warren Buffett
#61. A lot of people say about 'Gossip Girl,' 'Well, how do you feel about gossip?' Well, who really likes gossip? No one likes to be talked about if it's not flattering or a compliment.
Jessica Szohr
#62. It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
Honore De Balzac
#63. And the state of his bathroom
I'm not one to gossip, but there are things crusted on his sink that have not simply developed intelligent life, but have in all probability by now envolved their own political systems.
Neil Gaiman
#64. A wise woman invests her time and doesn't squander it in gossip, judgment or idleness. She knows every moment gone is one that she will not get back.
Toni Sorenson
#65. Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I'm showing right now by talking to you like this.
Jayne Bauling
#66. The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.
Lemony Snicket
#67. Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.
Stacey Lee
#68. So you were talking crap about me? Hm. I missed it. I was too busy being fabulous.
Dan Pearce
#69. I hate missing everything. That's why I want to marry well and be a grand lady. Then I can host all the parties, all the time, and see everything that is going on always. How can you stand not knowing?
Gail Carriger
#70. A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.
Diana Gabaldon
#71. Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.
Chuck Palahniuk
#73. I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.
Katia Winter
#74. Well, it hurts my feelings because the person that I read about sometimes in these gossip magazines is not the person who I am. So I don't want, you know, my fans to think that's how I am.
Paris Hilton
#75. All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about.
Tiffany King
#76. My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it." If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.
John Travolta
#77. You can talk to me, too."
"I do!"
"But you say so little."
"Women talk a great deal to one another. All this gossip and such. I am not a woman."
"What do you do when you have to command your men?" She inquired, exasperated. "Grunt?
Catherine Asaro
#78. Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#79. My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!
Craig Shoemaker
#80. I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.
Blaise Pascal
#81. More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.
Moby
#82. Has Westhaven taken to gossiping?"
"He has not, but like most men, you assume the only communications of significance pass between the males of the species.
Grace Burrowes
#83. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
William Hazlitt
#84. [My marriage to Abby] won't even be a blip on the gossip sheets unless we treat it as such.'
'Everything is fodder for the gossip sheets.'
'Not if we don't dignify it with a response and just go along as if this is the way things will be.
Anne Mallory
#85. Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence (Peter's Paradox): they merely gossip about incompetence to mask their envy of employees who have Pull.
Laurence J. Peter
#86. The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don't consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other players, they'll usually tell their wives. And once the wives get it, it's gone.
Boo Weekley
#87. Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.
Matt Drudge
#88. When people talk about you behind your back, they're not just behind you, they're beneath you.
Donald L. Hicks
#89. Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?
Henry David Thoreau
#90. It's my fault but the most violating thing I've felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the catchy gossip, but the rape of my personal thoughts.
Kurt Cobain
#91. I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.
That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.
Agatha Christie
#92. It's not technically gossip if you start your sentence with "I'm really concerned about ," (fill in the name of the person you're not gossiping about).
Brian P. Cleary
#93. The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
A. J. Jacobs
#95. If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
#96. Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#97. A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#98. Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.
Mercedes Lackey
#99. It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.
Libba Bray
#100. It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in fact there was no such thing as rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation.
Joshua Ferris
